Condor air shipping company
The Condor Luftreederei was a German airline.
history
On July 26, 1957, Condor Luftreederei GmbH was founded in Hamburg as a subsidiary of the Dr. Oetker Group . At that time, the Oetker Group included the Hamburg South American Steamship Company as well as an insurance company that also bore the name Condor . There was no connection to the South American pre-war airline Syndicato Condor . On July 12, 1958, the Condor air shipping company started charter flight operations . The purchase of a Douglas DC-6B was originally considered for autumn 1958, but this did not materialize. In September 1958, the company announced that additional cargo flights and combined sea-air travel should be carried out. However, it was found that the range of the Convair 440 was too short for the more distant destinations of this combined transport and that the Hamburg Süd shipping company also lacked suitable cruise ships.
Not least because of the increased importance of inclusive tours offered by scheduled airlines , Oetker sold Condor Luftreederei on March 24, 1961 to Lufthansa , which on November 1, 1961, Condor merged with its charter airline Deutsche Flugdienst to form Condor Flugdienst .
Thirteen years later, the Oetker Group was planning to re-enter the aviation sector. In 1974 it was announced that cargo and passenger operations were to be started with three wide-bodied aircraft in combination configuration. For this, the aircraft types Boeing 747-200M or McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF were considered. However, these plans were not implemented either.
business
In contrast to the largest competitor, the Lufthansa subsidiary Deutsche Flugdienst, tour operators with Condor Luftreederei could not only charter the entire aircraft (full charter), but also individual seats.
fleet
The Condor Luftreederei fleet consisted of two brand-new Convair CV-440s ( aircraft registration D-ABAB, D-ACEK ) acquired in July 1958 . Both machines were not taken over by Condor Flugdienst, but by Lufthansa.
literature
- Karl-Dieter Seifert: German air traffic 1955-2000 . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-7637-6121-7 .
- Joachim Wölfer: German passenger aviation from 1955 until today . Mittler, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-8132-0477-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jörn W. Mundt: Tourism . 4th edition. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71098-4 , p. 284 f .
- ^ Rolf Wurster: German aviation history after 1945 . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2017, p. 85.
- ↑ Wölfer 1995, p. 54.
- ↑ a b Wölfer 1995, p. 55.
- ↑ a b Dead souls . The mirror . November 8, 1961. Retrieved April 14, 2020.
- ↑ Federal Minister of Transport: Guide to German Civil Aviation . German Economic Service, Cologne, around 1965.
- ^ Tony Eastwood, John Roach: Piston Engine Airliner Production List . The Aviation Hobby Shop, West Drayton, 2007, p. 91.
